If the council rejects first-responder drones, where does this money go?

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a councilmember And if, say, the council has this floor discussion on DFR and we decide that's not a route we're ready to move into at this time, could we use the funds for something else?

a councilmember Are they limited specifically to drone training?

a councilmember Or could we find other training opportunities for our officers?

city staff Good question.

city staff And my understanding of this particular grant funding opportunity is specifically related to the training of operators for UAS or drone operations.

city staff The benefit to us for that in collecting it too is that even if we don't end up going toward that, although I do hope that the discussion continues and there is openness to understanding the benefits of an aerial response platform to assist with real time information, is that the operators that get trained can replace a SWAT operator that is already trained to do the drone use, and then that frees up that operator to actually deploy onto the tactical scenario while somebody else from outside is able to operate that drone on our behalf.